First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 296 Beech St in Newbern, AL 36765-3627. It is one of 14 churches in Newbern.
The Church shall be a dynamic spiritual body, missionary in spirit, empowered by the Holy Spirit, to share Christ with and minister to as many people as possible in our Church, community, and throughout the world.
First Baptist Church, located in the heart of historic downtown New Bern, is a part of the body of Christ. This is a place where persons can come together within a loving congregation to fashion our lives after Christ’s and to embrace our world with God’s transforming love.
296 Beech St, Newbern, AL, 36765-3627Phone: +13346243700 · Website: http://www.fbchurch.com/
First Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 4,553 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Alabama — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around First Baptist Church
It takes 5.3 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 6 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 63.9% (48.0–80.9%)
- Obesity: 50.5%
- Food Insecurity: 36.4%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 34.3%
- Diabetes: 22.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 19.2%
- Unemployment: 15.1% (3.7–27.1%)
- Social Isolation: 38.4%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.3%
- Poverty Rate: 25.8% (14.5–37.2%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.1%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near First Baptist Church
- Newbern Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newbern Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newbern Presbyterian Church — 0.4 mi away
- Sanctified Church — 0.9 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Mount Valley Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mars Hill Church — 1.1 mi away
- Mount Horeb Church — 2.8 mi away
- Church of Christ — 3.1 mi away
- Whitsitt Church — 3.4 mi away in Greensboro, AL
More Baptist churches nearby
- Newbern Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Alex Chapel — 4.4 mi away
- Mount Mariah Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away in Uniontown, AL
- Greenleaf Church — 5.6 mi away in Marion, AL
- Pleasant Grove Church — 6.8 mi away in Greensboro, AL